Posted on 11/03/2014 7:24:15 AM PST by upbeat5
Republicans need to run a presidential candidate in 2016 like a Ted Cruz or a Rand Paul, not a Jeb Bush or a Chris Christie, management guru Jack Welch told CNBC on Monday.
Bush and Christie are "too middle of the road" to win the country, the conservative-leaning Welch said in a "Squawk Box" interview—a day before the 2014 midterm election in which Republicans hope to take control of the Senate.
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The GOP should take a page from his book and fire the worst 5% of their office holders every year.
Love it! And Ted has done nothing but make me like him more all the time.
Me too, 2016 may be our last shot if we get that. I believe the Republican party is about to go after Senator Cruz as they have other Conservatives. We really don’t need mConnell and boehner or others of their ilk as leaders of the House and Senate for the next two years.
That was said a decade ago...
Rand would make voters of so many illegals an other felons that any good he did would immediately be undone by the Leftists that would follow him.
Jack Welch policy was to fire 10% of the people every year. In the old days the Romans would kill 10% of their soldiers at random if they did not win enough battles.
I guess Jack’s method is a bit kinder. GE will do anything for taxpayer money thru the gov’t.
Jack Welch should have fired everyone at NBC when he controlled GE but he did not.
As a political action for the good of the country, you’re right. As a business decision, wire service journalism is inherently “liberal.” Firing a few “liberal” journalists wouldn’t matter, because they would have to be replaced, and the replacements would be no better.Journalists claim to be objective - and/or, they accept that accolade from others. But in either case that merely proves that journalists are not objective about themselves
Journalists are “liberal” for the simple reason that “liberalism” is pure demagoguery, and journalists are perfectly positioned to prosper as demagogues. Politicians who are “liberal” are simply going with the flow of journalism. The most gutless choice a politician can make, as Rush puts it.
Journalists get away with claiming objectivity and with herd behavior because wire services make journalism a monopoly. As Adam Smith put it,
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. - Wealth of NationsThe wire services - especially the AP, but all the wire services - constitute a virtual “meeting” of journalists that has been ongoing since the Civil War. After such thoroughgoing, extensive, and interminable intercourse it was inevitable that journalists would engage in a conspiracy against the public. It turned into a conspiracy over a century ago.
actually w/ his fabulous hairdo...Rand could be mistaken for a mutt.
Sorry...couldn’t help myself.
And yes...Rand is a nut.
Aye! Aye!
Jack had one thing right...well two if you count the R’s should not put up Christie or Bush. For the love of pete...no more Bushes.
And no Rand Paul. I don’t see how anyone can think RP is conservative. He’s a whack a doodle (like his pop). I might agree w/ some of what Rand Paul says...but there are so many important things I disagree w/ him about I just can’t see how I could vote for him.
I’m sure he did NOT have the authority to do that.
That’s Immelts legacy....
Do you want a conservative, or do you want Rand? Make up your mind.
not relevant - to anything really.
well, being a newbie :) you don’t remember the old days where there was a Free Republic Media Chapter. We worked on GE to persuade them to curtail the biased news coverage on NBC
We had 500 Freepers that were on the chapter roles and were activists to bring attention to the bias and attempt to bring it to an end. We failed of course but did develop awareness.
We wrote jack and all the board a lot and got blather in return.
It was always a mystery to me why he wouldn’t change or get rid of NBC. It always was a loser and Jack is not a full fledged moonbat
Look, GE is not some one man fifedom - CEO still has to work through channels. This is not like CNN, which Ted Turner founded and owned. Totally different. Dow Jones company. Directors. Divisions. Contracts signed with companies as they acquired them that might prevent divestiture.
You’re over simplifying what is a very tangled web....
Rand Slams Congress for Funding Egypt's Generals: 'How Does Your Conscience Feel Now?'Sen. Rand Paul is hammering his fellow senators for keeping billions in financial aid flowing to Egypt's military -- even as Cairo's security forces massacre anti-government activists. [by "anti-government activists" is meant church-burning Christian-murdering jihadists][Posted on 08/15/2013 5:44:10 PM PDT by Hoodat]
Rand Paul On Shutdown: "Even Though It Appeared I Was Participating In It, It Was A Dumb Idea"I said throughout the whole battle that shutting down the government was a dumb idea. Even though it did appear as if I was participating in it, I said it was a dumb idea. And the reason I voted for it, though, is that it's a conundrum. Here's the conundrum. We have a $17 trillion debt and people at home tell me you can't give the president a blank check. We just can't keep raising the debt ceiling without conditions. So unconditionally raising the debt ceiling, nobody at home wants me to vote for that and I can't vote for that. But the conundrum is if I don't we do approach these deadlines. So there is an impasse. In 2011, though, we had this impasse and the president did negotiate. We got the sequester. If we were to extend the sequester from discretionary spending to all the entitlements we would actually fix our problem within a few years.[Posted on 11/19/2013 12:16:51 PM by Third Person]
Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said.[Posted on 01/31/2013 5:08:50 PM PST by xzins]
Rand Paul's immigration speech...The Republican Party must embrace more legal immigration.[Posted on 03/19/2013 7:04:07 AM PDT by Perdogg]
Unfortunately, like many of the major debates in Washington, immigration has become a stalemate-where both sides are imprisoned by their own rhetoric or attachment to sacred cows that prevent the possibility of a balanced solution.
Immigration Reform will not occur until Conservative Republicans, like myself, become part of the solution. I am here today to begin that conversation.
Let's start that conversation by acknowledging we aren't going to deport 12 million illegal immigrants.
If you wish to work, if you wish to live and work in America, then we will find a place for you...
This is where prudence, compassion and thrift all point us toward the same goal: bringing these workers out of the shadows and into being taxpaying members of society.
Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers.12 million more people assimilating into society. 12 million more people being productive contributors.
Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reformLatinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers...[Posted on 04/21/2013 1:52:42 PM PDT by SoConPubbie]
[but he's not in favor of amnesty, snicker, definition of is is]
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